SHADOWS FALL's Jason Bittner is now offering live online drum lessons at RockSource360.com. Now anyone can take a lesson with the Grammy-nominated, Berklee-educated percussion phenom. Studying musicians will learn multiple styles, including double-bass, multi-pedal patterns, odd times, etc. From rock and metal, to jazz fundamentals, to world fusion, Bittner's lessons can help drummers take their ...

Bruce Corbitt, lead vocalist of Texas metallers WARBEAST (formerly TEXAS METAL ALLIANCE), was interviewed on the latest episode of MSRcast ("Mainstream Resistance" podcast), the long-running metal podcast that is brought to you by Metal Injection Radio. You can now stream the episode below. (Note: The Corbitt interview begins around the one-hour, four-minute mark.)

Gore-metal originators EXHUMED are currently at Arcane Digital Recording in Arizona with engineer Ryan Butler (MISERY INDEX) recording the vocal, bass and guitar tracks for their first full-length album since 2003's "Anatomy Is Destiny". EXHUMED drummer Danny Walker previously laid down his drum tracks at Trench Studios with John Haddad (ABYSMAL DAWN, INTRONAUT). Mixing and ...

Hungarian extreme metallers EKTOMORF will release their new album, "Redemption", on December 17 via AFM Records. The CD was recorded at Antfarm studios in Århus, Denmark with producer Tue Madsen, who has previously worked with DARK TRANQUILLITY, THE HAUNTED and HEAVEN SHALL BURN, among others. EKTOMORF will play a very special acoustic show in front ...

Finally, technology has caught up with MANOWAR's custom-built touring and recording equipment. The band decided that its fans deserved to hear the songs from its debut album, 1982's "Battle Hymns", with the massive sound and production that has become the group's signature over recent years and records. Due for release at the end of November ...

Norwegian metallers COMMUNIC are putting the finishing touches on the material for the follow-up to 2008's "Payment Of Existence". The band is planning to start the recording process in early 2011 for a tentative June 2011 release via Nuclear Blast Records. Comments frontman Oddleif Stensland: "I am really excited about this new material that we ...

OVERKILL and ATLANTEAN KODEX have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Rock Hard festival, set to take place June 10-12, 2011 at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AGENT STEEL ANACRUSIS ATLANTEAN KODEX ENFORCER ENSLAVED IN SOLITUDE OVERKILL TRIPTYKON For more information, visit ...

"Burn", the new video from Californian rockers PAPA ROACH, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's new album, "Time For Annihilation... On The Road And On The Record", which sold 16,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 23 on The Billboard 200 ...

Episode 7 of the Focus On Metal weekly podcast features a brand new interview with guitarist Wolf Hoffmann of reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT. Wolf talks about the band's reunion, growing up in Solingen, Germany and the impact that had on the ACCEPT sound; and his love of photography. You can now listen ...

Tim "Ripper" Owens (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, BEYOND FEAR, ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH) and HOLY GRAIL's James Paul Luna were interviewed by host Victor M. Ruiz for the latest episode of the "Mars Attacks" podcast. You can now stream the podcast using the audio player below. Fan-filmed video footage of Owens performing a cover version of the ...